Winter 2014

Some 10% of kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools, technical colleges, trade schools and colleges in Hungary belong to the Association of Hungarian Independent Schools (AHIS), founded in Budapest in April 1992.

In 1993, a number of members of the Howick Methodist Church (HMC) had the vision to provide an early childhood development programme to learners from poor communities in the greater Howick district in KwaZulu-Natal.

Hilton College, a boy’s boarding school and long-time ISASA member in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, is custodian of a large area of land, part of which has been declared the Hilton College Nature Reserve, used extensively for education and recreation by all grades of boys at the school.

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest teacher union in the US. It recently asked its members to answer one question: “If you could redesign… school structure… what would the school day, week and year look like?”

By Monica Baart Recently, a colleague recommended the TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, entitled ‘How to escape education’s death valley’.1 It had a profound impact on my thinking. In the 20-minute presentation, Robinson outlines three principles crucial for the human mind to flourish – namely individualism, curiosity and creativity. He goes on to talk […]